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One of the launch vehicles of SpaceX Starship exploded on a test stand in Texas on Wednesday evening, while the company was preparing for the tenth trial flight of the heavy rocket system.
SpaceX said that “all the staff is safe and taken into account” A post on xAnd said there was “no danger to residents of the surrounding communities”. The company has not provided an explanation for the explosion.
It is not immediately clear what impact it will have on spacex development of the Starship rocket system. A recent advisory From the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suggested that the tenth test flight could have occurred on June 29.
The CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said in an apparently linked post To the explosion he considers it: “Just a scratch.”
SpaceX has spent the last years aggressively developing the 171 feet starship and the 232 feet of 232 feet of 232 heavy feet which feeds it in space. The company started 2025 adage This year would be a “transformation” for the program, and the FAA recently increased its limit to the launches of starship in Texas from 5 to 25.
But Starship, in particular, has had a number of problems this year. The rocket unexpectedly exploded during its seventh test flight in Januaryand then Still in March. He failed again during his Ninth test in May.
While the rocket came to his last flight in May that during the previous two tests, he still failed to deploy the silent starlink satellites he was carrying – a crucial step in the company’s plan to use the mega -rocking to develop its space internet service.
Musk argued that SpaceX is on the right track to try to send a ship to March in 2026, which gives it a chance “50/50” In an update of the company in May. The company also develops a larger “version 3” of Starship which, according to Musk, could fly this year.
